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Issues, VB 6.0 Apps on Vista and Windows 7

User are requesting to run the VB 6.0  app we developed several years ago on Vista and Windows 7.  I am wondering what, if any suggestions other VB 6.0 developers may have concerned with installing and running VB 6.0 apps on these platforms.  surely we are not the first.

We are using the latest version of InstallShield 2010 Professional to create our install.

We have encountered a very specifc isssue related to a 'Kill' command that is not deleting a file, yet not throwing an error.   I detailed in that scenario in topic
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/25085694/'Name'-statement-throwing-exception-in-Vista.html.  This issue had not been resoved yet.

I am just trying to anticipate other issues that we may need to address runniing on these newer platforms.  Any applicable suggestions will be greatly appreciated and points will be split among them.
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Thanks for your input.  We had been warned about the requirement for Administrator rights and used an admin user to install.

Just out of curiosity where do you install the app and data for the VB6.0 apps you are running in Vista?  

After doing some more research it looks like Vista and Windows 7 handle the \Program Files directory differently than XP.  We have booth the application and the related data being installed in \Program Files.  Perhaps this could be an issue.
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